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Cohorts and cultures: developing future design thinkers

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ACE '18: Proceedings of the 20th Australasian Computing Education Conference

Pages 9 - 16

https://doi.org/10.1145/3160489.3160494

Published: 30 January 2018 Publication History

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Design Thinking (DT) is a required skill of computing graduates according to the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA). However, according to the 2016 AIIA work ready skills survey there is a job-ready skills gap between the industry expectations of design thinking skills and the ICT graduate capabilities in Australia. Design thinking applies methods that focus on problem-solving, ideating, and iterating in small bursts with continual feedback from users/stakeholders. This paper describes how an Australian university has embedded DT into the core of a Bachelor of Information Technology degree in a way that not only scaffolds DT skill sets across the three-year degree but creates a culture of design thinking. This DT 'strand' involves a two-day sprint that includes every year level as a mixed cohort. This paper presents the implementation of the DT strand and the industry-driven two-day sprint.

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Cohorts and cultures: developing future design thinkers
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing and business
      1. Employment issues
    2. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs

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DOI:10.1145/3160489

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